Volume 13, Number 3—March 2007
Synopsis
Human and Animal Vaccination Delivery to Remote Nomadic Families, Chad
Esther Schelling*1
, Mahamat Bechir†, Mahamat Abdoulaye Ahmed†, Kaspar Wyss*, Thomas F. Randolph‡, and Jakob Zinsstag*
, Mahamat Bechir†, Mahamat Abdoulaye Ahmed†, Kaspar Wyss*, Thomas F. Randolph‡, and Jakob Zinsstag*
Table 3
Cost per vaccinated livestock and cost and marginal cost per fully immunized child and woman in Gredaya and Chaddra/AmDobak, Chad*
| Cost per outcome | Veterinary sector | Public health sector | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gredaya, Livestock | Chaddra/AmDobak, Livestock | Gredaya | Chaddra/AmDobak | |||
| FIC | TT2+ | FIC | TT2+ | |||
| Total no. vaccinated | 54,185 | 2,182 | 1,697 | 1,679 | 405 | 488 |
| Cost per vaccine dose administered | 0.11 | 0.56 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 5.6 |
| Cost per vaccinated livestock† or fully immunized child or woman | 0.25 | 0.56 | 11.9 | 6.8 | 30.3 | 18.7 |
| Marginal cost per FIC/TT2+‡ | 8.7 | 4.6 | 13.6 | 5.0 | ||
*FIC, fully immunized child; TT2+, woman with at least 2 antitetanus vaccinations.
†Cost per vaccinated animal: either vaccination against anthrax, blackleg and pasteurellosis, or against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia at 1 encounter.
‡Marginal cost per FIC and per TT2+ at a capacity limit of 200 vaccinated children and 100 women per day.
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